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SGT has developed a milk bottle in 100% recycled opaque PET

SGT is offering to dairy bottles a second life

SGT has joined a working group to develop a 100% recyclable long-life milk bottle.

The research work took 3 years to complete and the results were presented at a press conference in Paris at the beginning of the year.

Indeed, achieving a ʺfood contact” grade and a satisfactory appearance for the bottle was very challenging in technical terms. Slightly grey and glossy, the new milk bottle offers many benefits: less material, longer shelf life for the milk and suppression of the membrane seal.

The members of this consortium, including SGT, have thus demonstrated that preforms (therefore new bottles) can be manufactured by incorporating up to 100% of recycled PET in strict compliance with food standards.

This “bottle-to-bottleʺ closed loop is totally in line with the strategy dictated by European authorities. Indeed, by 2025 PET bottles will have to include 25% of recycled material. This obligation makes the ʺbottle-to-bottleʺ closed circuit an industrial and regulatory priority.

With this new project, SGT is actively contributing to this collective challenge, that consists in developing a more virtuous and environmentally-friendly economy by prioritizing the recycling of packaging and offering bottles a second life.